Terms & the plain version

Re:Cap listens to public X Spaces from hosts who have opted in, and writes them up as readable recaps. The recaps on this site and the threads on @recap_spaces are free, and stay free. Every thread is read by a person before it posts, by the host or by us, unless the host has switched on auto mode.

Re:Cap is run by Brokenreality Inc. Questions, problems, or anything at all: [email protected], or DM @recap_spaces.

Give us an email address and pick some hosts or subjects, and we send you a Sunday digest. We use your address for exactly that. We do not sell it, rent it, or hand it to anyone else. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing deletes nothing you would miss, and you can start again any time.

• What you get: each recap emailed the hour it posts, for every host we cover or just the ones you pick, plus the Sunday digest.
• Billing: $5 per month, charged by Stripe, renewing monthly until you cancel. Card details go to Stripe and never touch our servers.
• Cancelling: any time, effective at the end of the period you have already paid for. Do it yourself here.
• Unsubscribing is not cancelling. Stopping the emails and stopping the billing are two different actions. If you are on Plus, cancel the billing too. We warn you about this on the unsubscribe page rather than let you find out later.
• Refunds: ask. If Re:Cap did not do what it said it would, or you were charged for something you thought you had cancelled, we refund it. No argument, no form.

The watchlist changes. Hosts join, hosts can ask to be removed at any time, and a host's coverage pauses when their balance runs out. Their room, their call, so who gets covered means the roster as it stands, not a fixed list. If a host does not record a Space, Re:Cap records the audio live so it can still be recapped. Any host can switch that off with a DM to @recap_spaces, and hosts who can review their own recaps can also switch it off on their dashboard. X's platform can change under us. If any of that ever makes Plus meaningfully less than you paid for, tell us and we will make it right.

• What it pays for: each Space of yours we recap and post draws the price per Space from your balance. The price is the one your dashboard shows when you add funds. A Space we do not post costs nothing, and a Space restarted and stitched into one recap counts once. Taking a posted recap down does not give its draw back; if we got something wrong, tell us and we will make it right.
• Adding funds: from your dashboard, signed in with X. By card through Stripe, $20 or more. Or send USDC or ETH to our wallet, any amount, and paste the transaction link: it counts once we have confirmed it, for as many Spaces as it buys. Funds never expire.
• Your card and auto-refill: paying by card saves the card with Stripe, and your first card payment switches auto-refill on. When your balance is down to about 2 Spaces we charge it the refill amount ($40 unless you pick $20 or $100), at most 3 times a calendar month, and email you each time. Switch auto-refill off, or change the amount, on your dashboard whenever you like. If a charge does not go through, we switch auto-refill off and tell you; we never keep retrying a card.
• Hosts we cover on the house: start with 10 Spaces on us. They draw down like any balance, and when they run out, capture pauses until you add funds.
• When it runs out: we let you know when you are down to about 2 Spaces, and again when the balance can no longer cover one: by email, to the address you confirmed on your dashboard or, if you paid by card, the one you gave Stripe. With neither, we DM you on X. Then capture is paused until you add funds. Everything already recapped stays up.
• Paying for another host: you can add funds for another host's Spaces, as long as Re:Cap covers or has covered that host. The money goes on their balance and pays for their recaps; the recaps stay theirs to approve.
• Refunds: unused funds, on request, no argument. A refund goes back to whoever paid.
• The price: if it ever changes, we tell you 30 days before, and what you have already been charged never changes.

If you host Spaces and would rather we did not cover you, say so. DM @recap_spaces and you are off the list, no questions and no negotiation. Speakers are credited by their real names and handles; if we ever get a name or a quote wrong, tell us and we will correct it, including taking a posted thread down.

The re:sound browser extension keeps the pads your board sends it in your browser, and mixes them into the microphone sound your browser gives x.com while you host or co-host a Space. It plays while you have a re:sound subscription (below). Your board links it to your account, and the link is kept in the extension. re:sound checks its link with Re:Cap when it opens and every few hours, and only the link is sent. When your subscription ends, re:sound pauses (never in the middle of a Space) and your Space carries on with your own mic; subscribe again and it turns back on by itself.

Your subscription. re:sound is its own subscription, separate from any Re:Cap balance: $6 a month, by card through Stripe, renewing monthly until you cancel. Each X account that plays has its own. Cancel any time from your billing page, and re:sound stays on until the end of the month you paid for. If a payment does not go through, Stripe tries again for a short while and re:sound stays on meanwhile; if it still has not gone through, re:sound pauses. If the price ever changes, we tell you 30 days before, and what you have already paid never changes.

Hosts and co-hosts only. re:sound and Clip work only in a Space you host or co-host. On air, re:sound sends the Space's id with its check (about once a minute while you are on air), so Re:Cap can see you host or co-host it. Re:Cap asks X for that Space's host, co-hosts and speakers, as X account ids, keeps that a day, and keeps nothing else of it. As a speaker or a listener in someone else's Space, re:sound adds nothing to your mic and offers no Clip. The same goes for every account, including one using shared pads.

While you are on air with live clips on, it holds about the last 40 seconds of your Space in memory, and lets it go as it ages. When you press Clip, it sends the last 10, 20 or 30 seconds, as you choose (with up to 10 seconds before them, which Re:Cap cuts away), and the handles your Space window shows, to Re:Cap and to no one else. Re:Cap writes down its words on its own computer, keeps one line and who said it, and gives the clip back to you alone, on your board. Re:Cap deletes its record of the clip (the line, who said it, the room's list) a week after the clip was made; the clip's sound file stays at an address nothing links to.

When the clip is back, re:sound reads its sound from Re:Cap's own clip storage, so you can trim it beside the dock. While you preview it, re:sound turns the Space down for you (only on your computer: the room hears you as normal), and turns it back up when the preview stops. When you save it to a pad, it tells Re:Cap where you cut it, which key it went on, the pad's name and who said it, so your board can make the same pad; discard it and it tells Re:Cap that instead.

Nothing else is sent. From x.com, re:sound reads only the Space's address and the handles in its window: the address goes to Re:Cap with the check while you are on air, and the handles only when you press Clip (it also notices on your computer when they change, to check again sooner). Remove the extension and your pads go with it.

Sharing your pads. With a re:sound subscription, you can share your board's pads with up to 3 other X accounts, like a second account of yours or a co-host. Re:Cap keeps the handles you invite and how each one stands. An invited account sees your invite when it signs in to Re:Cap with its own X account, and nothing is shared and nothing plays until it accepts. Once it does, Re:Cap ties the invite to that X account and it gets your pads; to play them into a Space, it needs a re:sound subscription of its own. When you press Share my board, your pads (each one's sound, name and level, and the recap a pad came from) go to Re:Cap, and Re:Cap hands them to the accounts that accepted and to no one else. Your pads fill only their empty keys and never replace their own; a pad they change is theirs. Their clips are their own and go to their board, not yours. Either of you can end it at any time, and it ends at their next check. Your pads as you shared them then leave their board the next time it opens, and once nobody is waiting on or using your pads, Re:Cap deletes the pads you shared.

Recaps are our summaries of public conversations, with short quotes and audio clips for credit and context. The words belong to the people who said them. If you are a speaker and want a quote or clip of yours removed, ask and it comes down.

If these terms change in a way that affects what you pay or what you get, we email Listener Plus subscribers before it takes effect. Small corrections just get made, and the date at the top moves.